Freedom is only real once it chooses its own finitude.

Evidence

But to be precise, freedom can exist only as restricted since freedom is choice. Every choice, as we shall see, supposes elimination and selection; every choice is a choice of finitude. Thus freedom can be truly free only by constituting facticity as its own restriction. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1176

Categorization

• DEFINE: The definition of freedom as choice entails that restriction is not freedom’s negation but its condition.
• XREF: connects to: Even self-directed sincerity converts freedom into a thing to escape it. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 310; The cogito’s self-apprehension is first a grasp of its own contingency.; Finitude is the condition of freedom, since freedom requires choice. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 871 (+9 more)

Broader Connections

• Freedom chooses its being but cannot choose not to be #expands (0.85) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1146
• Freedom cannot choose its own past but must exist through it. #expands (0.82) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1177
• A liberty that stays only an attitude becomes self-imprisoning mimicry, not freedom. #expands (0.75) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 493